Peter Sutherland

Peter Sutherland (25 April 1946-7 January 2018) was Attorney General of Ireland from 30 June 1981 to 9 March 1982 (succeeding Anthony J. Hederman and preceding Patrick Connolly) and from 15 December 1982 to 12 December 1984 (succeeding John L. Murray and preceding John Rogers). He was a member of the Fine Gael party.

Biography
Peter Sutherland was born in Foxrock, County Dublin, Ireland on 25 April 1946 to a family of partial Scottish ancestry, and he practiced as a lawyer between 1969 and 1980. In 1981, he was appointed Attorney General of Ireland, and he resigned in March 1982; he again held the post from December 1982 to December 1984. In 1985, he was appointed to the European Commission, its youngest member, and he had responsibility for competition policy and education. From 1993 to 1995, he was also Director-General of the World Trade Organization, succeeding Arthur Dunkel and preceding Renato Ruggiero; he was appointed to the WTO due to his experience as Chairman of the Allied Irish Banks from 1989 to 1993. Sutherland would also serve on the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group, and he served as a UN Representative for International Migration from 2006 to 2017, advocating liberal immigration policies. He died in 2018.